{"id":21720,"date":"2018-07-08T10:01:20","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T14:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=21720"},"modified":"2018-07-10T20:01:27","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T00:01:27","slug":"andnew-tessa-blanchard-wins-phoenix-of-rise-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/07\/08\/andnew-tessa-blanchard-wins-phoenix-of-rise-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"#AndNEW: Tessa Blanchard Wins Phoenix of RISE Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following injuries to both Phoenix of RISE Champion <strong>Delilah Doom<\/strong> and her challenger, <strong>Shotzi Blackheart<\/strong>, a new Phoenix of RISE Champion needed to be crowned at last night&#8217;s <em><strong>RISE of the Impacts<\/strong><\/em> event, a co-production between <strong>RISE<\/strong> and <strong>Impact Wrestling<\/strong>. A 30-minute Iron Woman match was set to do just that, between indie veteran <strong>Mercedes Martinez<\/strong> and <strong>Tessa Blanchard<\/strong>, who had already competed earlier in the evening, scoring a win over <strong>Kris Wolf<\/strong>. Blanchard scored two pin falls to Martinez&#8217; one, becoming the fourth Phoenix of RISE Champion.<\/p>\n<h1>Tessa Blanchard Wins Phoenix of RISE Championship<\/h1>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">???<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tess_Blanchard?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Tess_Blanchard<\/a> is the NEW Phoenix of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RISEdtwa?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@RISEdtwa<\/a> champion in a 2-1 victory. Bravo to Tessa and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealMMartinez?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@RealMMartinez<\/a> on an incredible Iron Woman match! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RiseOfTheKnockouts?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#RiseOfTheKnockouts<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rSQfpFYruS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/rSQfpFYruS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 IMPACT (@IMPACTWRESTLING) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IMPACTWRESTLING\/status\/1015784188853800961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 8, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The win marks Tessa Blanchard&#8217;s fourth major Women&#8217;s Championship, as she&#8217;s also the current reigning <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/02\/13\/wrestlecircus-returns-saturday-3-month-hiatus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>WrestleCircus<\/strong> Lady of the Ring Champion<\/a>, <strong>PCW ULTRA<\/strong> Women&#8217;s Champion, and <strong>Women Superstars Uncensored (WSU)<\/strong> Champion. She&#8217;s also the Women&#8217;s Champion for new Chicago promotion, <strong>Zelo Pro Wrestling<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following injuries to both Phoenix of RISE Champion Delilah Doom and her challenger, Shotzi Blackheart, a new Phoenix of RISE Champion needed to be crowned at last night&#8217;s RISE of the Impacts event, a co-production between RISE and Impact Wrestling. A 30-minute Iron Woman match was set to do just that, between indie veteran Mercedes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":21722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,6],"tags":[612,3017,2968,3018,303],"class_list":["post-21720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-impact","category-north-america","tag-mercedes-martinez","tag-phoenix-of-rise-champion","tag-rise-of-the-knockouts","tag-rise-wrestling","tag-tessa-blanchard"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}